One man's music is another man's noise, but no matter
what your taste, ambient noise is the enemy. Luckily,
there's a piece of audio equipment designed especially
to maximise your listening experience, keeping ambient noise
out without sacrificing your music's sound quality.

On a 1978 flight to Europe, an American named Amar Bose, put on a pair of airline-supplied headphones, only to find that the roar of the jet engines prevented him from enjoying the audio. He started making calculations right there on the plane to see if it was possible to use the headphones themselves as a noise-reducing agent.

It took almost a decade of research to develop a product and today, most of the large headphone manufacturers have active noise cancelling headphones amongst their product ranges.